SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - Payroll & AI

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop and redesign products to meet customer and associate needs. The role involves collaborating with a dynamic team to create, deploy, and support production applications while mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens
• Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels
• Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

Requirements:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
• 3 years of work experience
• Experience with Workday Payroll or similar payroll/HCM platforms, including system configuration and business process optimization
• Experience leveraging AI, automation, or intelligent workflow solutions to improve processes and data quality
• Technical mindset with exposure to software development, integrations, APIs, or AI-driven tools
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders, solve complex problems, and drive innovation through emerging technologies
• 2-4 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks, an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java), Relational or noSQL database technology, cloud computing techniques, CI/CD tools, modern software design patterns
• Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Experience with creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience with version control system